Up & Down

Hmmm, I think I had a good night last night. I won $1700, so I think that is good. There were two 20/40 running last night, a main game and a must move. The must move was short most of the night, and I was at the Jesus table. I was running over everybody, particularly Freddy and the Persian fish. Then lagastic Jason waltzes in a messes up my friendly little 4-handed game, and proceeds to raise like every hand like I was doing, starting a 3 and 4 bet frenzy. Ai-yah! I get moved to the main game up 1700, a little while later the must move game breaks, and they make the main game 10-handed. I proceed to win 2 massive pots and before I know it I have 10 racks in front of me. I play for like another hour and a half, and proceed to play bad (too many chips in front of me syndrome), and get sucked out on left and right. So I had a win of like $4000 at one point, but didn't lock it up, and spewed off $2300. That sucks.

Ship it!

FINALLY! In all of my years of playing poker, I have never won a jackpot, not even a table share. Or any other promotion. In other words, I have never got one red cent from any casino, despite the thousands of dollars I have payed in rake. Tonight was different. I won $800 in Oceans-11 Sunday hourly football drawings. I won the last drawing of the night at 9pm. Earlier in the day I had told the floor man, that if he didn't call my name tonight, I was leaving and never coming back.

Really funny, was when they were doing the announcement for the winner at 9pm, I had just tabled my queen high hand to win a small blind versus big blind battle. I jumped out of my chair, and yelled "SHIP IT!" Half the table thought I was talking about my queen high hand winning! I ended up tipping the two floor guys 50 bucks each, so I only really netted $700, but damn it feels good to win money for nothing. In the grand scheme of things $700, relatively isn't all that much, considering I normally buy in for 2k when I play the 40/80, but as they say, money won is much sweeter than money earned!

I had a good weekend of poker as well. Today and yesterday I played the 20/40, logged 17 hours, and won $3945, plus the 700 from the promotion. Kind of makes up for the 14k loss I had in the 40/80 at the end of October, but not really.

Expert Play

I played an interesting hand last night. 40/80 at Oceans-11. I have just won a couple of pots off of Max and it looks like he was starting to tilt a little bit. He announced that he was going to 3-bet me every time I opened the pot. Couple of hands later, this hand pops up. Mike limps UTG, I 2-bet pocket aces, couple of folds to Max, who 3-bets, button calls, both blinds call, Mike caps it for me, everyone calls. 7 way action 4-bets each. Flop comes JT5 2 clubs, I have the ace of clubs. Check to Max who bets, button folds (really, really bad, not sure how you can fold anything here getting 29:1, with any hand you called with preflop), SB raises, BB calls, Mike calls, I decide to just call, expecting Max to 3-bet. Max just calls (whoops). Turn is a rag spade, now putting 2 clubs and 2 spades. SB checks (can we say flush draw?), BB checks, Mike checks, I bet, Max raises, SB calls, BB folds, Mike folds. River is a red 9. SB checks, I check, Max bets, SB folds. I tank for a little while, Max starts talking, I check/raise after like 30 seconds of thinking. Max instacalls. Pocket kings no good sir. I was going to just call, until Max started chirping.